Sanctuary For Families

Biden administration appoints former SFF Deputy Director of the Immigration Intervention Project Carmen Maria Rey Caldas as the new Immigration Judge in NY.

NY's Ukrainian community is mobilizing to create a network of volunteers to aid the smooth passage of displaced Ukrainians. Among these is SFF Deputy Director for the Manhattan Family Law Project Luba Reife, who is helping develop a web portal with legal information for new arrivals in NY.

In this op-ed, SFF Executive Director Judy Kluger talks about how the simplification and streamlining of the NY court system would benefit victims of domestic violence.

SFF Executive Director Judy Kluger praises Noel as "someone with vision, integrity, warmth, compassion, perseverance, and a deep commitment to advancing the rights of survivors of gender violence."

These two bills would aid in identifying and rescuing survivors, support recovering survivors, and strip back barriers to better collect data on human trafficking. SFF Director of Anti-Trafficking Policy Alexi Meyers is quoted.

SFF Executive Director Judy Kluger weighs in on the debate surrounding what role police should have in addressing domestic and gender-based violence.

"Providing this information to victims, and those in a position to assist them, in the very destinations in which they are being transported for purposes of sex and labor trafficking will prevent exploitation and save lives," says SFF Legal Director Dorchen Leidholt, in support of the passing of Paulin's bill.

SFF Executive Director Judy Kluger writes an op-ed discussing the devastating impacts of Office of Victim Services (OVS) funding cuts.

SFF Director of Anti-Trafficking Policy Alexi Meyers joins Senator Kirstin Gillibrand in support of two bipartisan bills, the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act and the Put Trafficking Victims First Act, that would support victims and survivors of human trafficking.